Natalie Beridze

Natalie “Tusia” Beridze B. 28 Mar 1979 Tbilisi Formerly Known As TBA Is A Georgian Experimental Electronic Music Composer Songwriter And Producer. Beridze Is A Member Of Gudrun Gut‘s Open Artist Collective Monika Werkstatt And Georgian Creative Laboratory Goslab. She Teaches Songwriting And Music Production At The Creative Education Studio-CES. Beridze Began Her Artistic Career In The Early 2000s Initially Making Short Films And Music Videos. Her Video For Nikakoi’s Song Game 2001 Won The 2nd Prize At The Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen Festival. In 2002 Tusia’s Early Solo Tracks Appeared On New Georgian Aestethics – A Collection Of Georgian Electronic Music Compilation And In The Same Year She Sang In A Duo With Nikakoi On His Debut Album Sestrichka And 12″ City Lights EP Released By German Label WMFREC. From 2002 To 2008 Beridze Worked And Lived In Cologne Germany Where She Relocated After Landing A Record Deal With Thomas Brinkmann’s Label Max Ernst. Tusia Adopted A New Alias TBA Meaning “Lake” ტბა In Georgian And Also A Common Abbreviature “to-Be-Announced” In English. Her Debut Album As TBA Georgia Is Like Spiritual Tokyo LP Accompanied By A “self-Titled” Max.E.-CD5 Version Came Out In 2003. In 2005 Tusia Beridze Was One Of Four Musicians Featured On The 4 Women No Cry Vol. 1 2×12″/CD Compilation In A New Series From German Label Monika Enterprise. Independent Press Hailed Her As The First Female Georgian Electronic Musician To Reach Widespread Recognition In Europe. She Released Four More Full-Length Albums At Max Ernst Including Stupid Rotation Under Her Minimal Techno Alias TBA_Empty And An Ambitious 2007 Trilogy Consisting Of A Conceptual Double Album Inspired By Lewis Carroll’s “Alice In Wonderland ” Size And Tears And The Other CD. In 2007 Natalie Beridze Returned To Tbilisi Georgia. She Released Her Next CD Album Pending Credited To TBA_Natalie Beridze On Laboratory Instinct. The Next Year Beridze Released What About Things Like Bullets EP On Monika Enterprise Followed By Her First Full-Length Album For The Label Forget’fulness CD In 2011. In Addition To Her Solo Projects Beridze Has Collaborated With Many Renowned Artists Including Thomas Brinkmann Antye Greie-Ripatti AGF Gudrun Gut Greie Gut Fraktion Jörg Follert Wechsel Garland Marcus Schmickler Nika Machaidze Nikakoi Gacha Bakradze Post Industrial Boys T.Raumschmiere And Ryuichi Sakamoto. She Also Participated In An Online “mail Art” Project Chain Music Initiated By Ryuichi Sakamoto & David Sylvian. Natalie Beridze Wrote Soundtracks For Several Movies Such As Salome Machaidze’s “Trigger Tiger” 2006 And “Dima” 2009 Or Zaza Rusadze’s “A Fold Of My Blanket” 2011 . Some Of Her Piano Compositions Were Performed By Vera Kappeler. To Date Natalie Beridze Released 14 Full-Length Albums Which Recently Have Been Published By Renowned Australian Ambient Label Room40 Like Of Which One Knows In Front Of You If We Could Hear And On CES Records The Album Spines read less